How would the "Eight is Enough" family handle quarantine? We know, because they already DID handle it!

I'll be fine....I'll just sleep in my car!

Dick Van Patton had some ugly kids. Why would someone want to sleep with him six times?

Why would anyone want to sleep with Tom Bradford eight times?

You would have thought they would have used the occasion to wipe out some of the less interesting children, like Mary and Elizabeth.

Mary was so clearly a dyke. Her homophobic family forced her to fake a relationship with some guy and look what happened!

I loved the scene where the hot young male doctor made a house-call, entered David's bedroom and then quickly told the concerned parents, "He requires a long and very private treatment" before shutting and locking the door.

That family had some serious medical calamities- the mother dies the first season, Tommy almost dies (but unfortunately recovers!) and Dad Bradford marries Betty Buckley!

Everyone on this show was so LOW ENERGY! Not even the laugh track can make it funny or pleasant to watch; it's like it takes place in another dimension and no one interacts with each other like normal humans do. No wonder not ONE of the 8 kids had a career after the show ended! Brady Bunch for the win.

[quote]No wonder not ONE of the 8 kids had a career after the show ended! Brady Bunch for the win.

Right because the Brady kids really took Hollywood by storm.

This thread needs more photos of Grant Goodeve’s hairy chest.

Nicholas would of been molested by then

But Tommy had Bibleman!

R1 I thought she was TV's Sweetheart?

They would handle it with a little bickering and a lot of love.

R9 Would you rather grow up to be Eve Plumb or Susan Richardson?

R13 She is. Very much loved here. Bless her heart.

I've been watching my DVDs of "Eight Is Enough" over the last month, since all of this surreal Covid craziness started. They've brought me a lot of comfort in the never-dreamed-of situation we're currently living through. Just tonight I realized why I loved the show so much--I longed for an Abby in my life as a 7- to 11-year-old, about to come to terms with his sexuality (and then get walloped by the advent of AIDS). I longed for a Tom, too, and a whole family who would love and support me no matter what. Flame away, DL gays, but "Eight Is Enough"--mostly because of Betty Buckley's amazing performance--somehow saw me through one of the hardest times of my life as a kid, and it's seeing me through once again.

Abby struck me as the type who would have responded to you with, "AIDS? It is it's own cure."

Abby struck me as the type who would strike me as soon as Tom went to work.